Drugs You May Want to Quit Taking

Here is a list of drugs doctors have been advised to withdraw patients from, if possible. Consult with him or her about that before stopping them on your own. The problem of polypharmacy (more than five drugs for one patient) needs to be addressed aggressively, especially in the elder
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Scary Health Statistics: Treat the Patient, Not the Paper

I couldn’t say it better than the mother shown in the PBS video below http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/daughter-escaped-scary-health-statistic-heres-learned/ Treating the whole patient not just the lab values, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15e47d536681a665
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Volume 18 • Number 9 • September 2017

All of us having achieved a certain age know that having a purpose in life, a mission, is the best way to live. Younger people may also be aware of this, but, they may not have a living testimony of this truism. My own purpose has been to be “other directed,” to help my family, my fri
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The Future of Food

Your children’s future will likely be defined by the articles you will find in this issue. You can read it at your local library. The main three points therein are: The problem of addiction: while the NG does not come out and say processed foods are addicting—particularly refined suga
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Galled by Excessive Surgery

Gall Bladder issues concern all of us, even if you are the paragon of health. Given what is going on in our health care system you would do well to prevent problems that often lead to unnecessary surgery. While it is true that taken it out is the right thing to do in some cases, this
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It’s Not the Bug, It’s the Terrain

Pasteur, famous for fighting bacteria with vaccines, came to realize that the real problem with infections is the person’s immune system. True, some bacteria are more virulent than others, but even then, those with a healthy immune system do better when infected. This is a key point w
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If you must take a drug let it be Metformin

It comes from an herb, the French Lilly, or Galega officinalis. But, being that it has been synthesized it may still cause kidney, liver, and intestinal problems. It helps with acne, pre-diabetes, cancer, aging, circulatory problems, Alzheimer’s disease, etc. Why so many salutary effe
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Volume 18 • Number 8 • August 2017

This month’s newsletter deals with several recent articles on preventing brain aging, a concept that will get more and more attention. The system still emphasizes treatment with ineffective, expensive drugs, but, the only rational approach to cognitive decline is to teach people at a
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